Frozen in Lava (IMAGE)

Columbia Climate School

Frozen in Lava

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An ocean-bottom seismometer (sailboat-like object) was trapped amid erupting magma in 2006 at the East Pacific Rise. Such instruments are providing new insights into the timing of eruptions.

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Dan Fornari/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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